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Merp Day

I’m having an icky day. A merp day. When I’m feeling anxious or like I’m on the cusp of falling into a depressive state, I associate that feeling with just feeling blah, feeling urgh, feeling merp. Sort of like:

“How are you feeling?”

“Meh. Merrrrp.”

Interestingly, I googled “merp” to provide some sort of contest. Urban Dictionary gave me this definition:

a word said when an awkward conversation is happening to make things less awkward,quiet or can be used as an expression of sadness or to change the conversation

boy: wanna high-five?

girl:….um no

boy: merp

So.

It’s a merp day.

What bums me out even more is that I am coming off of 7 really incredible days! I felt so happy at work, at home, in between. I had very few panic attacks at work, and my negative self-talk was minimal. I had no paranoid thoughts about my boyfriend leaving me…

Borderline Personality Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and my therapy journey. Listed in Top Ten Resources for BPD in 2016 by goodtherapy.org. I write for welldoing.org and for Muse Magazine Australia, under the name Clara Bridges.